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Check out this book: The Linux Command Line. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593273897.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593273897.do There's a revie
by vram22 11y ago
Check out this book: The Linux Command Line.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593273897.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781593273897.do
There's a review of it by me on that page, under the Reviews link. I think that review (which I spent some time and effort writing) will give you a fairly good overview of the topics you (or anyone) needs to learn to become good at using Linux (or other Unixes) at a user level.
There are also tons of other resources for it on the net, including many at http://tldp.org http://tldp.org - The Linux Documentation Project. Some of those may feel more advanced, so you may want to start with the book above, or any other similar book, and then move on to the TLDP and other tutorials on the net.
- mzs 11y agoI used a different O'R book, Essential System Administration or something like that. It had a chapter on the shell and some useful commands to use in shell scripts. Also the SysV printed documentation had a very nice book about the other commands that you miht use like roff as a word processor.
- vram22 11y agoYes, Essential System Administration is good. I've read some of it. But I think it is more oriented for sysadmins, while the Linux Command Line book is for beginners, who may or not go on to become sysadmins. Aside: One of the good points the ESA book maks, IMO, is that when doing sysadmin tasks, try to make your changes reversible, i.e. you should be able to go back to a previous state (of a config file, or whatever). That can save you from a hell of a lot of trouble later.